Denisse and her daughter Jamie once faced homelessness. Today, they have a safe home at Corazon Del Valle in Los Angeles County, thanks to support from the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program, jointly administered by HCD and California Strategic Growth Council #HousingForAll
Last week, a judge ruled that the city of Los Angeles cannot move forward with their implementation of AB 630, a bill that allows the county to dismantle and remove more recreational vehicles that serve as a last refuge for OR that shelter unhoused LA residents.
Read: laist.com/news/housing...
Fun trend.
Love the visuals here.
Think sales tax: "A single curbside parking space, roughly 20 feet long, can support 2 dining tables seating about 8 people total. If each diner spends a modest $30 and tables turn twice per evening, that space generates roughly $480 per night, or about $144,000 per year in gross restaurant revenue"
Western correspondent reporting in: the Inland Empire got Boring to backdown, hope remains.
Natural | Social | Financial | Built
Rooted
Connected
Balanced
Resilient
Prudent
Learning centers at the top, power at the bottom.
Rates of Change-- adapted from Stewart Brand's How Cities Learn.
Auckland has double-decker city buses
It’s polite in Auckland to thank your driver
And I dig the occupancy data on the bus arrivals board
With the purchase of LA's "Graffiti Towers" -- did you ever wonder how a skyscraper is removed?
Check out this 7m doc from Bluebeam:
youtu.be/b-H7E-KQgHQ?...
Limiting parking through parking maximums provides development opportunities via direct displacement in higher and better uses, AND opportunities -- particularly under Prop 13 -- for increased tax generation.
Paving Over How Much Paradise? w/ Mike Manville:
youtu.be/GC0v12Ld03g?...
Nashville's structured parking costs $52,000 while underground parking costs $73,000.
Less parking means more room for housing.
From @ellenschwartz.bsky.social
www.its.ucla.edu/publication/...
California continues to be in the future: 8,000+ dishes reused at UCLA
Legacy Challenge Top 8 decklists for Saturday night, Feb 21 (38 players) #mtg #mtgLegacy
Oops! takes it down!🤭🏆
Doomsday in 2nd ⏳
Izzet Prowess gets 3rd 🥋
Dimir Midrange finished 4th 🥷
Going with @metrolosangelesbot.bsky.social
Another @henrygrabar.bsky.social winner.
Can we call this concept hermit crab housing now?
Gift article: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Last summer, Vic Blends launched the first barbering program inside a California prison, giving incarcerated folks real skills for life after release.
The new San Quentin Learning Center stands for the same values: education, rehabilitation, and earned second chances.
Ivory affordable Missing Middle Housing project by Union Design in Providence:
Donald Terner, architect of Inclusionary Zoning on IZ::
"Local gov. offers the developer incentives to make [IZ] economically feasible. Without greater density, government loans, land write downs or parking regulation waivers, inclusionary zoning was "well-intended nonsense."
— SF Examiner, 1986
Excellent framing from @mattmahansj.bsky.social on going beyond zoning reform: "we need to reduce housing codes that increase costs without making us safer."
And "we need to reduce unfunded inclusionary zoning mandates," citing 20-30% of total dev costs are in impact fees.
Nolan did on x.com
We need to get back on the road toward progressive tiered pricing.
The current capital improvement program is passing costs to ratepayers at a pace they can't and shouldn't have to absorb.
In Santa Monica, a parking lot becomes a dog park @dogppl.bsky.social.
In 1989 there was buzz behind creating a "Bicycle Freeway" in Westwood that even Mayor Bradley endorsed. It proposed 17-foot-high elevated "veloways" crossing Wilshire & the 405 into Brentwood & Sawtelle. Cost: $7 million. LADOT said it would infringe on street/fwy improvements.
These candidate-specific two minute questions are fantastic.
Thank you for creating this essential forum @cayimby.bsky.social
Thank you to my editor @jhollymc.bsky.social @tennesseelookout.com and Dash
The sweet sadness of the spike in google search trend : "where to meet people."
